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(Kitco News) – Gold continues to hold support around $4,000 an ounce, but according to one market strategist, it’s only a matter of time before the precious metal heads lower as it faces challenging headwinds from a stronger U.S. dollar.In an interview with Kitco News, Carley Garner, veteran commodities trader and Co-Founder of DeCarley Trading, said that gold’s role as an important monetary hedge could face its biggest challenge in years if Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh succeeds in reversing the years-long trend that has been described as the U.S. dollar “debasement trade.”Garner said that markets are underestimating the significance…

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Data Security Stock Struggles, Unfavorable Comps to Cyera Could Make Private Deal Appealing Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • June 23, 2026     Selling to private equity was one of the most common ways for public cybersecurity vendors to cash out their chips during the early 2020s.See Also: Beat the Breach: Outsmart Attackers and Secure the Cloud Firms including Thoma Bravo capitalized on the economic downturn that took hold in spring 2022 by scooping up security companies that had gone public during headier times and were struggling to meet investor expectations for profitability. Thoma Bravo sought to capitalize on the market…

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This article looks at the 8 Best Mid Cap Defense Stocks to Buy.The NYSE Arca Defense Index is up 4.96% year-to-date as of the close on June 24, trailing the S&P 500’s returns of 7.29% during the period. The defense sector has been volatile in 2026 due to a mix of geopolitical uncertainty, profit-taking, and weak earnings, among other factors.Earlier in the month, Bernstein noted the sharp decline in share prices of major defense contractors since the beginning of the Iran war and stated the firm does not anticipate a recovery until at least the midterm elections in November.Analyst Douglas…

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Silver enjoyed a rare green session on Thursday, and reading much into it would be a mistake. The metal bounced off a session low near 56.50, briefly spiking close to 59.00 just after the US data hit the wires, before fading back to around 58.00, up roughly 0.8% on the day. Set against the wreckage of the past several months, a single up-day looks far more like oversold mechanics than the start of a turn.A bounce, not a baseSeveral forces combined to lift Silver intraday. Thursday’s firm Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and a jump in capital goods orders hinted at…

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Spark has migrated $150M of its stablecoin liquidity to Uniswap v4 in one of the largest AMM liquidity migrations in DeFi history. The move will let Spark capitalize on its new programmable hook called DualPool, which is designed to keep idle stablecoin inventory earning yield between swaps. What’s the Scoop? The big idea: Spark is positioning this release as the foundation of a “Stablecoin FX Layer,” i.e. shared liquidity infrastructure for a world where 100s of stablecoins from banks, fintechs, and beyond all need their own market depth. The initial deployment covers USDS, USDT, and PYUSD liquidity, with USDS as…

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Household costs and supply disruptions are quietly reshaping day-to-day business risks, forcing managers to reassess pricing, margins and short-term funding strategies. In the morning signals of the global economy, new microeconomics trends are emerging: Morning Bid: Microneconomics gathers the key data and trends that will influence business and investor decisions throughout the day. The focus is on consumer demand, price dynamics, and the behavior of companies across various sectors. Key morning topics Household spending continues to influence the market: rising prices for everyday goods, demand recovery after seasonal peaks, and pressure from input costs. Businesses assess whether they can maintain…

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Euroclear has been working with the Banque de France on Project Pythagore, which aims to tokenize the negotiable EU (NEU) commercial paper sector. Now the central securities depository has announced a collaboration with Societe Generale-FORGE (SG-FORGE) to use its USDCV MiCA compliant stablecoin as a settlement asset. A key objective of the project is to enable settlement of NEU CP transactions in central bank money, with the ECB’s Project Pontes coming online in September. One of the settlement options is the Banque de France’s DL3S solution for wholesale CBDC (wCBDC). However, that only works for euros, so the stablecoin will…

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